It was alright.
The Jezabels - Prisoner
Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular
The National - High Violet
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
Hey Rosetta! - Seeds
City Calm Down - Echoes In Blues
Yuck - Yuck
Bill Ryder-Jones - Yawn
Wolf Alice - Visions of A Life
kent - Tigerdrottningen
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Desperate Journalist - Grow Up
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
DMA’s - For Now
It came along at an “interesting” point in my life which adds to it, without going into too much detail. I wish there was more of his stuff with vocals (unless I am missing some), this seemed to be what a lot of people criticised but I loved it.
Might belong in the Rolling Dance Whatever / Rolling Hip-Hop, but got a playlist of odds & sods from decade that some people might enjoy… stuff that won’t get mentioned in the albums discussion much.
(No Spotify, sorry. Will join the streaming revolution for the next decade maybe…)
Robyn & Royksopp - Monument
Skee Mask - Routine
Vince Staples - Norf Norf
Schoolboy Q - There He Go
Lanark Aretfax - Touch Absence
Andy Stott - Posers
Mumdance - Take Time (ft. Novelist)
Stormzy - Shut Up
LV & Joshua Idehen - Imminent
Deadboy - On Your Mind
Grimes - Realiti
DJ Koze - XTC
David Bowie - Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich mix by James Murphy)
Todd Terje - Ragysh
Abra - Crybaby
Omar S - Heard’Chew Single
Moderat - Bad Kingdom (DJ Koze Remix)
Bicep - Just
Mssingno - Xe2
Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees
Frank Ocean - Novocane
Drake - 0 to 100 / The Catch Up
Yaeji - Raingurl
AAL - I Never Dream
Robyn - Dancing on my Own
Teengirl Fantasy - Cheaters
LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted A Hit
Jessy Lanza - Vivica
Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance
Radiohead - Daydreaming
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
Four Tet - Lush
Kanye West - Christian Dior Denim Flow
Kendrick Lamar - Cartoon & Cereal
Rosalia - De Aqui No Sales
FKA Twigs - Water Me
Sophie - Is It Cold In The Water
Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love
Robyn - Honey
Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing
Portable - Surrender
John Talabot - So Will Be Now
Yves Tumor - That Feeling When You Walk Away
Suzanne Kraft - Flatiron
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - The Narcissist
Trimbal - Confidence Boost (Harmonix)
Nicolas Jaar - Time For Us
Pachanga Boys - Time
Oneohtrix Point Never - Chrome Country
Same.
Polling thread now live …
My top 10 - still a work in progress - will probably end up looking something like this …
- Titus Andronicus: The Monitor
- Josh T Pearson: Last of the Country Gentlemen
- The Wave Pictures: Long Back Cars
- Julien Baker: Sprained Ankle
- Thee Oh Sees: A Weird Exits
- Titus Andronicus: Local Business
- GNOD: Infinity Machines
- Nick Cave: Push the Sky Away
- Future of the Left: The Plot Against Common Sense
- Gas: Rausch
Surely this should wait until at least January 2020, there are still 4 months when an absolute corker might get released.
The new Big Thief then
This is my shortlist
Sometimes I Sit and Think… - Courtney Barnett
Bloom - Beach House
7 - Beach House
★ - David Bowie
Pop 2 - Charli xcx
Peasant - Richard Dawson
Get to Heaven - Everything Everything
Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
Shields - Grizzly Bear
Beyondless - Iceage
In Colour - Jamie xx
99% - KAYTRANADA
s/t - Kelly Lee Owens
good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
Grey Area - Little Simz
Double Negative - Low
Varmints - Anna Meredith
Sun Coming Down - Ought
Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile
B’lieve I’m Goin Down… - Kurt Vile
Tomboy - Panda Bear
Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
Viet Cong - Preoccupations
Relatives in Descent - Protomartyr
Lonerism - Tame Impala
Currents - Tame Impala
Drunk - Thundercat
Star Wars - Wilco
Public Strain - Women
Feel a bit bad because there’s such a bias towards guitar-led, bloke-fronted bands, with some of the other genres only represented by the absolute undisputed titan albums, if you like, but I had to be honest with myself. Have never properly sat down and listened to Sufjan, Newsom and a couple of other ‘10’s favourites’ so the final list might have some newcomers but we’ll see!
Love a good list post, mmm.
This is my longlist so far of albums I have enjoyed, associate with memories etc. Jai Paul will be number 1 unless something absolutely massive happens (the other 9 is in there somewhere)
Jai Paul - Leak
WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Frank Ocean - Endless
Real Lies - Real Life
Metronomy - The English Riviera
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
ANOHNI - Hopelessness
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
DIIV - Oshin
Darkside - Psychic
Pure X - Pleasure
Solange - A Seat At The Table
Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
M O N E Y - The Shadow Of Heaven
Savages - Silence Yourself
Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
Zola Jesus - Stridulum II
La Roux - Trouble In Paradise
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Grimes - Visions
Iceage - New Brigade
Merchandise - Children Of Desire
Majical Cloudz - Impersonator
Virgina Wing - Ecstatic Arrow
Vår - No On Dances Quite Like My Brother
Caribou - Swim
Young Father - Cocoa Sugar
Mac Demarco - 2
The Weeknd - House Of Balloons
Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like A Bell
Ibeyi - Ash
Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
David Bowie - Blackstar
Rostam - Half-Light
Amen Dunes - Love
Beyoncé - Lemonade
Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
PRIESTS - Nothing Feels Natural
Pusha T - Daytona
black midi - Schlangheim
Carly Rae Jepsen - e-mo-tion
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Rhye - Woman
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Frank Ocean - Blond
Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory - Elements Of Light
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
Ought - More Than Any Other Day
These New Puritans - Hidden
W H Lung - Incidental Music
Beach House - Teen Dream
Real Lies - Real Life
LCD Soundsystem- This Is Happening
FKA Twigs - LP1
Yeasayer - Odd Blood
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Richard Dawson - Peasant
I’ve gone for taking my top 5 from each year to give me my initial 50, and then to save going too crazy I’m basically just going to choose my fav from each year - unless there’s years where the best of 2016, say, is less good than the 2nd best of 2014.
If I don’t limit myself like that in some way I think I’ll go mad over this …
Top 10 is looking like this at the moment.
- Frank Ocean - Blonde
- Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- There Will Be Fireworks - The Dark, Dark Bright
- Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
- Deafheaven - Sunbather
- Sun Kil Moon - Benji
- Japandroids - Celebration Rock
- Grizzly Bear - Shields
- Burial - Kindred
- LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Been looking like this for a while and reckon this will be it come the end of the year but will hold off posting in the poll thread until nearer deadline day.
Public Strain by Women.
I’m not sure if these are necessarily my Top 4, but I think these are the only ones 100% guaranteed to be in my Top 10.
The Antlers - Burst Apart (2011)
Deafheaven - New Bermuda (2015)
Strange Ranger - Rot Forever (2016)
The National - Sleep Well Beast (2017)
As always I’m having trouble evaluating between strongest impact, best (if such a thing exists), and most listened to. For lists like this I’m usually heavily biased towards long, sad albums that I try to only listen to a few times a year, so a lot of the stuff I listen to regularly gets shut out. And then there are albums that I was completely obsessed with but at this point feel like they’re from a different life entirely (The Monitor, High Violet, Trouble Will Find Me, Wondrous Bughouse, Kveikur, etc.)
I feel very good about those four choices though, even though I’ve probably only listened to New Bermuda five or six times.
I too, enjoy the album Public Strain by Women.
I could probably listen to the outro of Eyesore forever and not get bored.
Enjoying this list and first time I’ve seen Cold Cold Heart mentioned in a while. Great record!
Thanks Cameron - glad you like the list (found it hard to be concise as I wanted); yes; its a very moving piece by Cold Cold Heart - I have Gideon Coe of 6 music to thank for discovering them. Also, I didn’t realise till after posting about them, but one of the band members is also a DiSser.
As a Primavera regular I thought I’d ask if you happened to see them at the 09’ edition… was a great set
Sleep well beast is a good pick - I found it somewhat overlooked in terms of its reception (as much as a National LP can be) but its a great LP - I meant to include on my longlist - along with Women’s Public Strain as Kallgeese mentionned.